Browsing by Author "Dwenger, Nadja"

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2008-01-21Buch

Don’t aim too high: the potential costs of high aspirations

Matthey, Astrid; Dwenger, Nadja

The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. ...
2012-01-11Buch

Implementing quotas in university admissions

an experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Westkamp, Alexander

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a ...
2013-01-08Buch

Preference for Randomization

Empirical and Experimental Evidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg

We investigate violations of consequentialism in the form of the stochastic dominance property. The property is shared by many theories of choice and implies that the decision-maker prefers receiving the best outcome for ...
2007-12-20Buch

Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off

An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on final grades from school ...